TOLEDO, Ohio — A big honor for the staff at Toledo Botanical Garden this week.
Metroparks Toledo announced that a garden they created for the 2023 Landscape Design Challenge by All-America Selections was awarded a first place prize.
The competition asked participants to create a “whimsical garden.”
The staff utilized downed trees that had been flipped upside down and filled the root flairs with colorful annuals. They also created a topiary dragon.
The prize was for gardens with more than 100,000 visitors a year.
The garden was located on the Bancroft Street side of the sprawling complex.
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